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Giles Davies

About

The driving force behind my painting is an attempt to create a real, living presence on the canvas in response to my curiosity towards the subject in front of me, whether this is an object or a person. This curiosity provokes the need for a complete understanding of the structure and nature of the subject; a scientific enquiry into what constitutes its visual presence. What emerges from this process is a dialogue in paint, a distillation of observation over time into a single image that tries to account for the physicality of the subject, to know it and find meaning in it. Through this process I also like to explore ideas about identity and the nature of mortality, iconography and the narrative of objects.